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		<title>AFI Vice President Appointed to the Provincial Review of Training Regulations for the Security Industry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO, February 9, 2012/MILTON, ON- AFI International, North America&#8217;s leader in crisis management and response, is pleased to announce that Desmond Taljaard, its national vice president of operations and security services, has been selected as the sole representative for the CSIS at the Provincial Review of Training Regulations for the security industry. Taljaard was appointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NS: Herald employees head to talks with strike mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a strike mandate in hand, the union representing 84 newsroom employees at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald is headed for two days of conciliation talks beginning tomorrow. On Saturday, more than 96 per cent voted in favour of a strike to fight the company’s attempt to roll back salaries for new employees in the editorial department. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour dispute boils at Newfoundland wharf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAY ROBERTS, N.L. &#8211; A blockade by locked-out workers at a wharf in eastern Newfoundland is another attempt by the union to harm Ocean Choice International, the seafood processing company said Monday. Martin Sullivan, president and CEO of Ocean Choice, said the demonstration in Bay Roberts began Sunday after the company locked out about 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick end to lockout at Rio&#8217;s Quebec smelter unlikely</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO, Feb 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Rio Tinto&#8217;s lockout of workers at its Alcan division&#8217;s big Alma aluminum smelter in northern Quebec looks set to drag on with no signs of a breakthrough to end the labor dispute. A spokesman the Anglo-Australian miner said on Monday that no talks with the union are scheduled. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electro-Motive picketing continues despite closure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers in London, Ont., say they&#8217;ll continue to picket even though the Electro-Motive Diesel plant is now officially closed, as the head of the Canadian Auto Workers calls for a public inquiry into the closure. Progress Rail Services Corp., a subsidiary of U.S. construction equipment conglomerate Caterpillar, announced the closure of the locomotive plant Friday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caterpillar closes Electro-Motive plant in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American industrial giant Caterpillar is closing its locomotive plant in London and putting 460 workers out of their jobs just over a month after they were locked out for rejecting pay cuts of up to 50 per cent. The dramatic move at the Electro-Motive Canada factory, owned by Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail, confirmed the worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take new deal or we’ll impose it, city tells workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayor Rob Ford administration has an ultimatum for 6,000 city workers — surrender almost all job security and more, or have the concessions imposed anyway at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. The threat — extremely unusual in the public sector and regarded as a way to get workers to accept an offer or force them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transit strike hits Halifax</title>
		<link>http://afi-international.com/bulletin/2012/02/03/transit-strike-hits-halifax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first transit strike in Halifax since 1998 left thousands of people in the city scrambling to find alternate methods of transportation as Metro Transit and its unionized workers refused to budge from their positions. More than 700 workers walked off the job just after 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, after union representatives rejected Metro Transit&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A month on the line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 27]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The union representing 481 locked-out Electro-Motive employees won a round in court Wednesday when a judge ruled against a proposed injunction that would have ended their blockade of a locomotive in Ingersoll. The locomotive &#8212; identified in court as unit 4 &#8212; had been stopped on the tracks since Jan. 25. Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAW ends Electro-Motive blockade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Locked out Electro-Motive workers in London have ended their blockade of a locomotive in Ingersoll. Members of the CAW, which represents workers at the London plant, had prevented the locomotive from moving since Jan. 25. The locomotive was one of the last units to be produced at the Electro-Motive plant before parent company Caterpillar Inc. [...]]]></description>
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